Workshop, Université Paris Nanterre, January 31st – February 1st, 2019 The “A Greater War” network (+GG) is dedicated to a generation of early career scholars that has emerged during the Centenary. The network is based upon the idea of...
moreWorkshop, Université Paris Nanterre, January 31st – February 1st, 2019
The “A Greater War” network (+GG) is dedicated to a generation of early career scholars that has emerged during the Centenary. The network is based upon the idea of going beyond the borders which have thus far organised the study of the First World War, whether chronological, geographical, or disciplinary. The goal is to ensure that the vitality of the research continues after the commemorations, maintaining the quality and intensity of the debate.
To this end, we invite you to the network’s launch and first workshop, dedicated to historical sources, to take place at the Université Paris Nanterre on Thursday, 30 January and Friday, 1 February 2019.
The question of the study of sources is central to the renewal of research practices operated by the early career scholars +GG aims to assemble. The historical reflection conducted at the Université Paris Nanterre, aiming to apply an historical perspective to artistic and literary sources at the crossroads between disciplines, renders it the ideal setting for dialogues around this topic. This essential reflection also benefits from the on-campus presence of “La Contemporaine” (formerly the “Bibliothèque de Documentation Internationale et Contemporaine”).
Postgraduate students and early career scholars (from second year Master’s students to scholars whose doctorate has been awarded within the last three years) are invited to participate in round table discussions about papers which will have previously circulated amongst all participants. Each participant will comment the work of another early career researcher, with the moderation of senior scholars. These papers may address one or many of the topics indicated (amongst others):
1. Revaluation of sources in the context of the Centenary: A new study of sources? What were the contributions of the “Grande Collecte”? How to “face” the influx of sources and questions raised by the commemorations?
2. Old perspective(s), new sources: How to apply previously-established theoretical frameworks to new sources, issued from both the Centenary and from an interdisciplinary opening?
3. Old sources, new perspective(s): How to study a source which has already been explored by questioning it differently? How to bring together researches arising from different disciplinary and/or paradigmatic fields? What are the new approaches brought about by early career scholars today? How to apply the theoretical frameworks conceived by our predecessors?
4. Mechanisms for the construction / conservation / diffusion / exploration of sources: Which methodologies and techniques are applied by early career researchers to their sources? How is science being made? What are the issues arising from the digital humanities when applied to First World War sources?
5. Using sources to go beyond borders: Which sources to explore in order to breach physical, chronological, and disciplinary borders that may have thus far oriented the studies of the Great War? How to trace the conflict’s impact beyond the European fronts and the timespan of 1914-1918? Where to look for new sources and how to explore them in order to write this history? More broadly, how to renew, in France, the usage of sources applying methods used in other countries? Is there a “French usage” of sources of the Great War?
Organising committee:
• Julia Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti Thomaz (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Aude-Marie Lalanne Berdouticq (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Damien Accoulon (Université Paris Nanterre & Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Scientific committee:
• Annette Becker (Professeure, Université Paris Nanterre)
• Laurence Campa (Professeure, Université Paris Nanterre)
• Franziska Heimburger (Maîtresse de conférence, Sorbonne Universités)
• Alexandre Sumpf (Maître de conférence, Université de Strasbourg)
• Damien Accoulon (Université Paris Nanterre & Technische Universität Braunschweig)
• Aude-Marie Lalanne Berdouticq (Université Paris Nanterre)
• Gwendal Piégais (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
• Julia Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti Thomaz (Université Paris Nanterre)